Guest Column: Kentik's Doug Madory, Last Call for Upcoming ISOC Course + More

Sat Sep 9 03:46:13 UTC 2023

A friend once commented, "If it's free, -=YOU=- are the product."  It
should be updated to, "If it's free, -=YOU & EVERYONE YOU INTERACT WITH=-
are the product."

/herb

On Fri, Sep 8, 2023 at 10:25 AM John Gilmore <gnu at toad.com> wrote:

> It is totally possible to turn off the spyware in MailChimp.  You just
> need to buy an actual commercial account rather than using their
> "free" service.  To save $13 or $20 per month, you are instead selling
> the privacy of every recipient of your emails.  See:
>
>   https://mailchimp.com/help/enable-and-view-click-tracking/
>
>   "Check the Track clicks box to enable click tracking, or uncheck the
>   box to disable click tracking.  ...  Mailchimp will continue to
>   redirect URLs for users with free account plans to protect against
>   malicious links.  ...  When a paid user turns off click tracking,
>   Mailchimp will continue to redirect their URLs until certain account
>   activity thresholds are met."
>
> Don't forget to turn off the spyware 1x1 pixel "web bugs" that
> MailChimp inserts by default, too:
>
>   https://mailchimp.com/help/about-open-tracking/
>
>         John
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/attachments/20230908/e2b9d372/attachment.html>